Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If we had only invaded Afghanistan, I could understand it. But Iraq, as I said at the time, had absolutely nothing to do with it, and it was bullshit.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      People seem to forget, people even seemed to forget in 2002 and 2003, that Bush had been talking about finishing what his father started all the way back when he was running for president the first time in 1999. I kept telling people at the time.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        I was in the Army then and we all knew it was Daddies War 2.0. I tried to help as many people get out of the Army as I could and then got myself out with full honors and no PTSD. Being a conscientious objector was hilariously easy because everyone knew “fuck bush and fuck the army – I aint fighting.”

      • Beetlejuice001@lemmy.wtf
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        5 months ago

        No “we” don’t. A very small minority whom have been gerrymandered to such an extreme to give the frauds who have taken over our government with their bribes the power to enact these policies.

    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      We didn’t need to invade any damn whole country, we have multiple special teams that train precisely for hunting and gathering. The govt of Iraq and the poppy fields of Afghanistan needed freedom though, so we went hot after the Saudis attacked us.

      Murican capitalism war hooah!

      • Dem Bosain@midwest.social
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        5 months ago

        You’re not wrong, we didn’t get bin Laden until we sent one of those special teams into the territory of an"ally".